Information is needed on how organizational values drive culture. This is an assisted living facility that I am planning to open in the Caribbean island of Jamaica where none currently exists. An environmental scan seeks to ensure your original pitch is viable. External and internal assessment tools are utilized your to ensure strategic initiative is viable. You may find after completing your environmental scan your strategic initiative idea will change. The environmental scan helps you develop key performance indicators (kpis), which will help focus the application of limited resources to produce above-average returns. During your scan, address the following: internal:

identify your strategic initiative using various internal assessment tools to evaluate your organization’s strengths and weaknesses in functional areas of business which include

• Management

• Marketing

• finance

• accounting

• productions/operations

•research and development

management information systems external:

identify your strategic initiative using various external assessment tools to evaluate outside trends and events outside the control of the organization, and the industry. Include the following:

• identify what you found in your environmental scan.

• What did you learn about the industry?

• What did you learn about your organization?